>>>>> Java’s known performance issues made it unappealing I have read this many times and every time I read it and it seems to me that this is just a rationali

>>>>> Java’s known performance issues made it unappealing I have read this many times and every time I read it and it seems to me that this is just a rationalization, probably an unconscious one: "Offering false or inauthentic excuses for our claim because we know the real reasons are much less persuasive or more embarrassing to share, or more harsh than the manufactured ones given." [1] Maybe not the case in this particular instance, but every reason I have heard about choosing Go can be summarized as: "We chose Go because it is new new cool language. Ahh, and you can deploy by copying a single exe file" [1] http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/150-rationalization http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallaci...